Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah.

And then you get in the old, what is it, the old Stalin thing, which is the single death of the tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Like, maybe it's even the small-scale horrible things that happen that are the most emotionally intense because they're the things that you really, you're going to react to a person, you know, kind of the most intensely.

And so...

And I think that's the thing.

If you're doing the meta observation of this, it's like, okay, you just have to expect this same phenomenon, this outrage cycle to play out every time, regardless of truth or falsehood and regardless of the actual magnitude of the underlying issue.

Because, again, what's being argued about is not the specifics about what actually happened.

That's not the point.

The point is the ability to form up immoral tribes and then have the rumble.

Yeah.

There's a – George Orwell actually has a great thing on this because George Orwell famously covered the Spanish Civil War, which, as I said, is kind of the original – where a lot of this stuff sort of played out for the first time in the 20th century.

And he did this thing one time where he talks about – his version of this, he talks about the role of the atrocity.

And he said basically the key point of propaganda in any war –

And so you get two countries that go to war and, you know, they've each got a moral claim of like why they're the justified, you know, it's like nobody ever attacks, everybody's always defending, like, and I only attacked him first because he was going to attack me otherwise.

And so each side in a war, each country has its own basically moral position, why the war is justified.

But he said basically – Orwell said like it's hard to sell like high – it's hard to sell like these high-blown – these high-flying kind of abstract ideas of like why we need to go to war.

And so he said what happens is the propaganda efforts of each government in a war become basically looking for atrocities.

And so specific point events –

A famous one is the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, but we can name many, many other examples.

And so you're looking for these very specific events where something very specific and concrete happened that's clearly over the moral or beyond the realm of moral acceptability, right?

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